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Joan Davis

Women’s Royal Naval Service member

Joan Davis served in a role connected with the Women's Royal Naval Service during second world war. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.

She is associated with representative wartime technical and communications work. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, exploration, or specialist expertise.

She is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most familiar names. Joan Davis belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.